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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.

William James

Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good

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